Welcome to Sociology of Culture
This course examines the relationship between culture and society. On the one hand we will examine cultural production, evaluation, and dissemination from a sociological perspective. On the other hand we will discuss what constitutes the integration of culture -- broadly defined -- into our understanding of society. Both aspects of the field seek to understand the ways that culture is implicated in race, gender, class, nation, and other aspects of social identity and social change. Topics will include theories of mass media and ‘mass society’; art worlds; class, culture, and power; the ‘production’ of culture; taste cultures, cultural evaluation, and reception studies; culture and organizational behavior; macro-theories of social change; and current methodological strategies for the empirical study of culture.
Recent Announcements
October 31: Assorted Readings for Weeks 9, 10 and 11 have been posted on the syllabus.